{"id":1414187,"date":"2022-04-01T07:15:38","date_gmt":"2022-04-01T11:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1414187"},"modified":"2022-04-01T07:15:41","modified_gmt":"2022-04-01T11:15:41","slug":"when-will-comedians-stop-protecting-kamala-harris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/when-will-comedians-stop-protecting-kamala-harris\/","title":{"rendered":"When Will Comedians Stop Protecting Kamala Harris?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwhen-will-comedians-stop-protecting-kamala-harris%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1414187&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p><strong>Dan Quayle never became president, but he did boast a small but fanatical base.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Comedians.<\/p>\n<p>It took one epic miscue \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mentalfloss.com\/article\/64689\/never-forget-time-dan-quayle-misspelled-potato\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">misspelling the word \u201cpotato\u201d<\/a> \u2013 for comics to label President George H.W. Bush\u2019s Vice President a dunce. Quayle made matters worse by sharing a few <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cs.cmu.edu\/~dwinkler\/quayle.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">less than wise sound bites<\/a> during his tenure as VP.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s happening again with Vice President Kamala Harris, but this time the comedy world is standing down.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Kamala Harris speaks like she has to hit a word limit on a high school paper she\u2019s done no research for. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/m6DDUIQG5g\">pic.twitter.com\/m6DDUIQG5g<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ClayTravis\/status\/1509500273227665414?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 31, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>You couldn\u2019t blame comedians for seizing and\/or pouncing on Quayle\u2019s miscues, but the potato incident <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mentalfloss.com\/article\/64689\/never-forget-time-dan-quayle-misspelled-potato\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">forever stained his political life<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was more than a gaffe. It was a \u2018defining moment\u2019 of the worst imaginable kind. I can\u2019t overstate how discouraging and exasperating the whole event was,\u201d he later wrote in his memoir, \u201cStanding Firm.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/quayle-meets-letterman\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Late night comics teed off on Quayle<\/a> during his four years in the Bush White House. Quayle gamely chatted about that legacy with one of his comedy critics, David Letterman, back in 1999.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019ve got to be nuts to come here,\u201d Letterman cracked during that good-natured exchange, acknowledging how awkward it must be for Quayle to visit \u201cenemy territory.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Should Harris swing by a late night couch in a decade it won\u2019t be nearly as uncomfortable. So far, mainstream comedians are looking the other way at her comically inept performance.<\/p>\n<p>What are they missing?<\/p>\n<p>We could start with her \u201cstewardship\u201d of the border crisis, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2021\/jun\/26\/kamala-harris-border-visit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">drew heat from both sides of the political aisle<\/a>. It also led to this embarrassing exchange.<\/p>\n<p>President Biden later turned to Harris to help protect <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/kamala-harris-voting-rights-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">so-called attacks on voting rights<\/a>, another challenge Harris couldn\u2019t deliver.<\/p>\n<p>Those are political matters, though, and today\u2019s biased comics are loathe to criticize Democrats in disarray.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s Harris\u2019 ability to evoke Quayle-isms that should slice through partisan blinders.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s a small sample.<\/p>\n<p>How can the late-night TV landscape, let alone \u201cSaturday Night Live,\u201d ignore this much longer? The new late night kid on the block, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodintoto.com\/trevor-noah-whca-greg-gutfeld\/\">Greg Gutfeld<\/a>, is doing no such thing, of course. His barbs aren\u2019t shared and magnified by the press, though.<\/p>\n<p>Another group that isn\u2019t letting these whoppers go without mockery?\u00a0Social media wiseacres.<\/p>\n<p>They may be rank amateurs without the comic chops of a Kimmel, Colbert or Fallon. They still skewer Harris in ways you\u2019ll never hear on late night TV set.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VP?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@VP<\/a>, what type of dressing would you like with your word salad? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7SODbwY8nI\">https:\/\/t.co\/7SODbwY8nI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Horst De Wermer, DVM, MD, PhD, GED, DDS, MOUSE (@Crapplefratz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Crapplefratz\/status\/1508492891009822729?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 28, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u201cI have a word salad that is a salad of words. The words make a salad and the salad is made of words. The salad is words that are a salad.\u201d<br \/>-Kamala Harris-<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 People Are Waking Up!!! (@FelllF) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FelllF\/status\/1506465330050134016?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 23, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">A Kamala Harris explanation of what defines a man and woman would be such a word salad that even health nuts would reject it.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 GPA (@Grandpa19622016) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Grandpa19622016\/status\/1506817856239022083?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 24, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Embarrassing Harris clips are ricocheting around the digital landscape. At some point the public will recognize her inability to speak coherently in public, assuming she remains in her current position for the next three years.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodintoto.com\/big-tech-censorship-conservative-comedy\/\"><strong>RELATED: How Big Tech Is Crushing Conservative Comedy<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Vice Presidents may lack traditional power, but they\u2019re fair game for satirists.<\/p>\n<p>Comedians mocked Vice President Mike Pence for his stiff nature and Christian beliefs. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodintoto.com\/palingate-questions-showtime\/\">Sarah Palin<\/a> never became Vice President, but comedians excoriated her during and after her unsuccessful White House bid.<\/p>\n<p>Even The Onion, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodintoto.com\/the-onion-trump-biden\/\">leans aggressively to the Left,<\/a> once mocked Joe Biden with a<a href=\"https:\/\/interactives.theonion.com\/biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> series of faux news articles<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Can late-night propagandists keep ignoring Harris and her word salad regime, not to mention that cackle? They\u2019ve done exactly that so far.<\/p>\n<p>When will the comedy damn break?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Quayle never became president, but he did boast a small but fanatical base. Comedians. It took one epic miscue \u2013 misspelling the word \u201cpotato\u201d \u2013 for comics to label<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":489,"featured_media":1888511,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1414187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1414187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/489"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1414187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1414187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1888511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1414187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1414187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1414187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}